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An undercover sting operation resulted in the arrest of 12 illegal contracting suspects in San Mateo County on Thursday, according to a statewide agency that oversees licensed contractors.
The sting took place at a commercial property in Belmont, and was carried out by the Statewide Investigative Fraud Team, who posed as property owners.
SWIFT members asked suspects to bid on painting, drywall and flooring projects ranging from $1,000 to $14,000, according to Rick Lopes, a spokesman for the California Contractors State License Board.
In California, all home improvement jobs valued at $500 or more must be conducted by a company or person with a CSLB-issued license, Lopes said.
All 12 suspects were cited for contracting without a license, and one, an East Palo Alto man, was also cited by CSLB on an unrelated $5,000 warrant for driving with a suspended license.
In addition, 10 of the 12 suspects were cited on a misdemeanor charge of illegal advertising. Lopes said seven suspects were contacted through ads on craigslist.org, while five were called from business cards and newspaper ads.
The 12 suspects are Dardo Osmar Romano and Dino Joseph Landucci III, both of San Mateo; Edwin Francisco Zavala Valdivia of Sunnyvale; Hugo De Leon-Garcia of Hayward; Rafael Vicente Andrade Villalta, Concepcion Flores and Rossemberg Emmanuelle Hernandez, all of Redwood City; Loni Taaniela Maama and Filino Sokai Masifilo, both of East Palo Alto; Louie Graciano Ortiz of San Jose; Mario Ramirez Reynoso of South San Francisco; and Daniel Aaron Dayton of San Francisco.
The suspects are scheduled to appear in San Mateo Superior Court on July 15 to answer to illegal contracting charges.
CSLB officials encourage consumers to verify that a potential contractor is licensed before hiring them.
"Don't rush your spring clean-up, only to ruin your summer fixing someone's bad work. Check the contractor license. Get three bids," CSLB registrar Steve Sands said in a statement.
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London, UK (PRWEB) May 28, 2014
Central London based Blair Victoria & Tudor Inn Hotel is one of the most renowned bed and breakfast facilities offering comfortable budget accommodations to visitors with top notch facilities. The hotel offers a range of facilities, unparalleled customer services at highly affordable prices making it an ideal destination for those who visit the area for different purposes.
Commenting on the range of facilities that Blair Victoria & Tudor Inn Hotel offers one of its executives told us during an interview, We are highly popular and most preferred hotel in the area that offer the top notch facilities at dirt cheap rates. All our rooms are well designed, furnished and embellished with modern facilities. All our rooms are en suites having direct dial telephone, 16-24 inches flat screen digital television, hair dryer and writing/vanity desk with mirrors.
The list of amenities doesnt end here as the rooms also have Wi-Fi facility together with central heating, complimentary toiletries and complimentary hospitality tray with tea and coffee as well as daily maid services that enable visitors to enjoy a comfortable stay at highly affordable prices.
Talking about the rooms, the executive further told us, All our rooms are en suites with options ranging from single to double en suite, twin en suite rooms, double basic rooms, triple en suite rooms quad en suite and family en suit rooms that customers can choose as per their needs, requirements and budget. Our unparalleled customer service and best rate guarantee makes us ideal destination for budget traveler in central London area.
Unparalleled customer support, great amenities that match to luxurious or high end hotels, ideal location and highly affordable prices make Blair Victoria & Tudor Inn Hotel an ideal destination for those who visit the area for leisure, business or any other purpose. Blair Victoria & Tudor Inn Hotel is one of the best budget hotels in central London that offer unparalleled services at dirt cheap rates.
About Blair Victoria & Tudor Inn Hotel:
Blair Victoria & Tudor Inn Hotel is a bed and breakfast facility located in the central London offering comfortable budget accommodations to the visitors. The ideal location and proximity to the tourist hotspots of natural, cultural, historic as well archaeological importance makes it an ideal destination for tourists from London and all over the world. Some of Londons tourist attractions like Big Ben, Tower of London, Madam Tussauds, London Dungeon, London Eye, Buckingham Palace the house of parliament and many more are easily accessible from this well-known budget hotel in London. The hotel is easily accessible too as it is situated close to Victoria Underground, coach and railway stations that enable visitors to reach out to it without any hassle whatsoever. Blair Victoria & Tudor Inn Hotel is one of the most popular hotels near Victoria station London, UK that offer the best-in-class services.
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Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) May 29, 2014
Emerald ash borer is considered the most destructive urban forest pest even seen in North America. Since the discovery, the pest is responsible for killing more than 50 million ash trees in over 20 states and two Canadian provinces. Ash trees in the Denver Metro area are posed with a real threat, with an estimated 1.45 million trees at risk according to the Colorado Department of Agriculture. Emerald ash borer is raising many tree care questions with Denver homeowners along the Colorado Front Range: the main concern being treatment.
As Colorado's lawn care and tree service experts, we are committed to keeping our clients updated on threats to our Colorado landscapes. It's important we create awareness about emerald ash borer sooner than later, so homeowners can make an informed decision. By our calculations, we've reached approximately 59% of our clients and plan to hit 90% by the end of July, Swingle President, John Gibson states.
Before homeowners jump to conclusions, it is important to determine if ash trees are present in their yards. Ash trees have compound leaves with 5 to 11 leaflets, branches & buds are in pairs directly across from each other, and a tree with mature bark has diamond shape ridges. If you have a hard time identifying the tree, it is best to contact a professional arborist first. There have been various successful methods of treatment in the mid-west where the majority of the damage has occurred. Swingle Lawn, Tree & Landscape Care has worked with national companies to bring homeowners proven solutions. Products being used have been successful methods of treatment with those who have experience the devastation already.
Deciding on the best approach to treat ash tree(s) depends on several factors such as tree size, condition, and the proximity to the known affected area of the emerald ash borer. After a professional arborist has evaluated the tree, treatment options include either an injection in the soil or the truck or a basal bark spray (spraying the trunk).
Trunk Injection (Arborjet TREE-age) - Injections can start in late May through June. It is effective for at least two years; yet research has shown it can last longer. Truck injections are recommended for trees within 15 miles of the known detection site. A trunk injection may also be used if a soil injection is recommended, but the soil is not accessible.
Soil injection (Criterion) - Soil injections can be made mid to late spring and fall. A soil injection will protect tree(s) for one year. Swingle recommends soil injections for trees 15 miles outside of the detection site in Boulder, Colorado. Professional soil injections can place the insecticide below turf or mulch to directly reach the root zone of the tree.
Trunk spray or basal bark treatment (Safari) - Trunk spray is applied in June. The spray is effective for one growing season. The basal truck spray offers the advantage of being easy and quick to apply.
It is important to note ash trees have a better probability of surviving emerald ash borer if the tree has maintained a healthy status, being properly pruned, previously not infested by other pests, and adequately watered. Many ash trees in Colorado have been attacked by native insects for years and have not received enough moisture due to our semi-arid climate. Ash trees infested with emerald ash borer may be saved if the infestation hasnt reached critical mass, but the survival rate decreases significantly. Homeowners will have to decide the value the ash tree has to their landscape, whether it be financial or sentimental. Unhealthy trees exhibiting numerous signs of emerald ash borer or other pest infestation will have a harder time surviving and may die causing a threat to your property and requiring removal. To prevent infestation, prune dead branches that would weaken the tree and have the tree examined immediately if you believe the tree has been infested.
By the time you see signs of the insect, it may be too late for the tree; emerald ash borer is stealth, says Plant Pathologist Steve Geist.
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If the lawn outside your window is giving you the blues, join the club, says Consumer Reports.
After a brutal winter walloped much of the country, the magazine's Facebook and Twitter feeds have been buzzing with lawn care woes from exasperated homeowners (#moles and #barespots, anyone?).
Fortunately, many of the most common problems have fairly straightforward fixes. Consumer Reports offers the following solutions to common problems:
Solution: Look for lawn alternatives
Even so-called shade-tolerant varieties of turfgrass won't do well in dark corners of the yard. And pruning trees too aggressively to create sunlight can end up harming the tree. You're better off cutting your losses and replacing the sun-starved patch of grass with a shade-tolerant ground cover, such as bishop's hat or sweet woodruff.
Or you might convert that part of the lawn with gravel or a perennial bed.
Solution: A multipronged defense
You're smart to tackle this pesky weed. Besides being an eyesore, crabgrass typically dies off at the first frost, promoting soil erosion.
Applying corn gluten meal, a natural alternative to chemical herbicide, in early spring can help contain the problem. Follow with a spring fertilizer.
As the mowing season begins, don't cut the grass too short, since this can open the door again for crabgrass. Set the deck on your mower or tractor to around 3 1/2 inches.
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Nampa, Idaho (PRWEB) May 28, 2014
Barrier Lawn & Pest, Inc. believes their simple customer service, which they call the Barrier Promise has helped them gain a good reputation both online and offline in the pest control industry in the Boise area. The proof can be found by reading BBB reviews, Google reviews and Demandforce customer reviews. They receive excellent customer service reviews, which can be read on their site.
Barrier Lawn & Pest, Inc. is a family owned lawn care and pest control company. They have been operating in Boise, Idaho since 2006. Their headquarters are located in Nampa, Idaho. They are capable of serving most of Southwest Idaho including Garden City, Boise, Eagle, Emmett, Kuna, Meridian, Middleton, Nampa, Caldwell and Star.
Each day, Barrier Lawn & Pest, Inc. strives to meet the needs of the customer. They believe in doing simple and basic things, such as answering the telephone, because that is really what pays off. This company is committed to their customers 100%. They believe in providing top of the line treatment and service. They aim to be the type of company everyone wants to do business with. They believe in delivering results and treating people with the respect they need and deserve.
They promise to return every message, answer every call that comes in during business hours, call to schedule every service, and they are always on time. When treating homes and offices, the solutions they use for ant control and spider control are safe for the family and pets.
The company is licensed and insured, and believe in doing things safely by the book. Back in 2011, the Idaho Department of Agriculture performed a site inspection of their location. They passed this inspection with flying colors.
About Barrier Lawn & Pest, Inc.
Barrier Lawn & Pest, Inc. is a family owned lawn and pest control business. They first started back in 2006 and are continuing to grow. They believe in treating their customers with the respect and dignity they deserve.
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A presentation made to Park Ridge Park District officials suggests eliminating pesticides and using natural lawn care treatment on the new Youth Campus property.
Go Green Park Ridge delivered the presentation during the park boards Thursday, May 15 meeting.
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Before leaving for Indianapolis to visit her husband, who was in the hospital being treated for multiple myeloma, an incurable bone marrow cancer, Bonnie Atkinson (not her real name), a resident of the Painted Hills subdivision outside Martinsville, stood outside her house chatting with a neighbor. Suddenly a professional lawn care service truck appeared, and the driver sprayed herbicides on several lawns in the neighborhood, as had happened before. Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to determine whether her husband's cancer and the many other cases of cancer in Atkinson's neighborhood are linked to her neighbors' habit of treating their lawns with herbicides, she knew for sure that herbicides used on lawns are deadly to more than weeds, the target organisms, as Rachel Carson pointed out in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. Atkinson also knew that because of pesticide drift, herbicides move to areas other than were they're sprayed.
About 90 million pounds of herbicides are applied to U.S. lawns every year, according the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Of the 17 most frequently used herbicides, three are known carcinogens, three are possible carcinogens, and one is a probable carcinogen, according to Beyond Pesticides, a nonprofit working to end dependence of toxic pesticides. Various herbicides are linked with cancers, endocrine disruption, reproductive problems, neurotoxicity, kidney/liver damage, birth defects and sensitization/irritation.
Children are especially sensitive to pesticide exposure because they absorb more pesticides relative to their body weight than adults and have developing organ systems that are more vulnerable and less able to detoxify toxic chemicals than adults' systems.
Lawn chemicals harm pets, too: according to Environmental Research, using a pesticide to achieve a lush lawn is likely to cause malignant lymphoma in dogs.
Take the herbicide 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid), for example. It is the only one of the top 13 herbicides listed by Beyond Pesticides that causes all the ill effects herbicides are known to cause (http://www.beyondpesticides.org/lawn/factsheets/30health.pdf). It's one of the top 13 most heavily used herbicides in the home and garden, according to Beyond Pesticides. Lawn care companies apply it in the late spring and early summer for http://psep.cce.cornell.edu/issues/lawnissues.aspx">broad leaf weed control and in the fall for weed treatment.
The Natural Resources Defense Council reports that 2,4-D, which is applied outdoors but is commonly tracked into houses on shoes or pet paws, can remain in carpets for as long as a year. 2,4-D has been widely detected in drinking water.
2,4-D was a chief ingredient in the defoliant Agent Orange, which the U.S. used to destroy ecosystems in North Vietnam during the Vietnam war. It left a legacy of cancer and birth defects among the Vietnamese exposed to it, and it left a similar legacy in exposed American troops and their offspring.
2,4-D is contaminated with a class of synthetic chemicals called dioxins, the most potent chemical carcinogens known. Dioxins cause cancer, birth defects, reproductive effects, liver damage and a skin disease called chloracne. Dioxins are neurotoxins and endocrine (hormone) disruptors and are on the Environmental Working Group's "Dirty Dozen" list of the worst hormone disruptors.
2,4-D is especially associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cancer of the lymph system, according to Beyond Pesticides, an organization that advocates abandoning the use of pesticides. 2,4-D is absorbed through the skin. Anyone who applies the herbicide or is in contact with lawns or surface water where 2,4-D was applied is at risk of exposure to it.
Just how many Indiana homeowners employ lawn care services to spray herbicides on their property is impossible to know. The Hoosier Environmental Council has no information on the subject. According to the Office of the Indiana State Chemist, no agency has information on how many Indiana households use lawn care services because homeowners aren't required to report the use of a professional lawn care operator. However, the office reported that Indiana has 1,242 licensed turf-management businesses.
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Residents have been expressing outrage over the condition of city-operated cemeteries and it's getting results.
On Wednesday city workers were out cleaning up multiple cemeteries that have been in awful condition.
Pat Garchow and her husband Martin stopped by Forest Lawn Cemetery on Wednesday.
Loved ones have been fed up with the overgrown grass and weeds in the Saginaw cemeteries, especially near veterans graves on Memorial Day.
But when the couple arrived they saw volunteers and several city workers had already cleaned the area up.
City workers were mowing the grass at Forest Lawn on Tuesday. On Wednesday crews were fixing up Oakwood and Brady Hill cemeteries.
Public services director Phil Karwat said there are a few factors to blame for the recent conditions at the cemeteries during Memorial Day, including the weather and a lack of employees.
Karwat said the city has a new commitment with Tri-Cap, a community corrections program. Which means there should be more crews available to help maintain the cemeteries starting this week.
In the meantime Garchow said she hopes the city starts to make cemetery upkeep a bigger priority.
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With a little help from their friends, District lighting designer Cheryl Flota and architect Rick Lincicome got by the challenges of building a home next to a Chesapeake Bay tributary. The one-level, cedar-clad home in the tiny town of Rock Hall, Md., is raised on concrete piers to allow water to flow under the structure, should the nearby Grays Inn Creek overflow its banks.
We wanted to be as close to the water as possible, says Lincicome. But in this area, you have to be very careful where you put the house.
The married couple had built a modest weekend house in Rock Hall during the mid-1990s. Seeking larger living quarters, they bought 15 acres in 2010 with the idea of tearing down the flood-damaged dwelling on the property and building a larger, contemporary house for retirement.
To help them design the Rock Hall homes, as well as their apartment in the Watergate condominium, the two tapped their friends Jane Treacy and Phillip Eagleburger, District architects who specialize in residential design.
Rick did the schematics on both houses, but he didnt have the time to develop the designs, says Flota. Jane and Phil are fun to work with and challenge our thinking. They took us to places wed never go on our own.
Lincicome, 63, who was busy overseeing international building projects at the time, has since retired. Flota, 58, is still engaged in her lighting design business. Her past work includes illuminating the Smithsonians Hope diamond exhibit and canopies over Metrorail stations.
The pairs first house in Rock Hall, a shingled, two-bedroom cottage, set the design direction for the newer house in its arrangement of elevated, L-shaped wings. That structure, completed in 1995, cost $177,000 to build, according to the homeowners. Construction of the new waterfront house, which is twice the size of the previous home, ran about $1 million, not including design fees.
Our experience with the first house made us realize that we needed someone on board who understood the entitlement issues involved in building on the Chesapeake Bay, says Lincicome.
So he and Flota hired landscape architect Miles Barnard of South Fork Studio in Chestertown, Md., to help site the house and ensure that its location conformed to a state law that designated the bays Critical Area the 1,000-foot buffer around the Maryland shore of the bay and its tidal tributaries.
When building a house in this environmentally sensitive area, says Barnard, you have to look at the planning and zoning office as part of the design team. He and Lincicome met with Kent County officials over nearly a year, as we hit certain design milestones along the way, says Barnard, before submitting the plans in 2011 for a building permit.
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